Mr. Mark Huber is THE man that can answers all questions regarding surveying for the Civil Works Division of the Army Corps of Engineers. He can be c...
Curiosity killed the cat...Vaguely similar story in metro New Orleans. Local developer of several subdivisions did NOT dedicate land used for surface...
I recall about 20-25 years ago we had a local nutcase named "Newman" or something similar that claimed he had invented a perpetual motion machine. It...
I am guessing that this was a project for a video recording class and the assignment was to produce an instructional video. I doubt this was intended...
When I carry, it's usually a Ruger LCP in .380 for walks in the neighborhood - (wife is afraid of dogs). When I travel, it's a XDS .45ACP modified wi...
Haven't had the surgery yet, but when I do, I intend to get the flexible lenses that allow your muscles to change the focus from near to far.
I wonder if Ben Kacyra is still involved?
Went home for lunch today. Wife decided that my hair (I'm mostly bald) was too frizzy and put some kind of German stuff on my hair to control the fri...
The way the law USED to read in Louisiana was that if you hold a license as a Land Surveyor, you MUST so identify yourself as such on all business cor...
I have one. It's manufactured by the original Carl Zeiss factory which used to be in the Communist East Germany city of Jena. (That's where the best...
Very problematic with highly convergent imagery due to different angles of illumination. Tends to work well with vertical aerial photography, less so...
Jim,You are exactly correct. In fact, the best results are achieved with "pre-targeted points" in which reflector tape is placed at all salient point...
Photo-Based Point CloudsTake a look at iWitness photogrammetric software. That's what I use to teach with at LSU. Primary author is Dr. Clive Frazie...
Looks like it's going to really give Trimble some serious competition. Using a high-resolution consumer-grade digital camera is a LOT cheaper than th...
Lovely idea as long as you are not going to sign and stamp a Flood Elevation Certificate. OPUS was originally intended to only be used as a "check." ...
CIO = Conventional International Origin (with respect to observations of Chandler Motion). See: ser7@maia.usno.navy.mil
The sensitivity of a vial is expressed as its "PAR"Interesting details; thanks. What I wrote was off the top of my head, but the actual distance betw...
The sensitivity of a vial is expressed as its "PAR""PAR" is abbreviated with the Greek letter "pi." Par is the vial's sensitivity in arc seconds or a...
Biggest gator I've ever seen was the stuffed one in the Louisiana Society of Professional Surveyors' display case in the old Dept. of Natural Resource...
I'm not so sure the "grid" has a heightEasy way around that problem is to approximate it with a Local Space Rectangular (LSR) projection from geocentr...
